zaterdag 12 maart 2011

LINKS TO VICTORIAN RESOURCES ONLINE ( As a treasure chest for me).

I was looking for information about womenwriters and found this very interesting:
LINKS TO VICTORIAN RESOURCES ONLINE

For instance I found this
What a lot of information.
Through http://www.bl.uk/pointsofview/ the 19th century in photographes,
I found



The table that witnessed the creation of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre - two of the finest novels in the English language -
Sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell used the table from childhood and Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were amongst the works produced on it.
Made from Cuban mahogany on an oak base, the table is a real writer's work-place, stained with ink spills and scarred in the centre with a large candle burn. At one end a bold letter E is carved into the surface, almost certainly the work of young Emily, whose initial can also be seen in the notebook of her poems that will be displayed on the table.
Each night after their father retired to bed, the sisters would walk around the table and discuss their writing. After the early deaths of her brother and sisters, Charlotte was unable to break the habit and sadly continued the nightly routine on her own.The table is in private ownership; it was purchased at the sale of the household effects of the parsonage after the death of Reverend Brontë in 1861 and was sold soon afterwards to the family in whose possession it has since remained. It has only once been seen outside the family when it was lent to the Brontë museum at Haworth for a short period.

1 opmerking:

  1. the resources are wonderful, thank you! I'm looking forward to thoroughly exploring them.
    And seeing the actual table that the family grew up around brought tears to my eyes...I wonder who owns it and if it will one day return to it's home at the Parsonage. It really is quite something...I'd love to see the ink stains and burns...and every other mark that the Bronte's made, just wonderful!
    xoxo J~

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